The evening start for the Davis Cup tie against Spain has caught the Indian team by surprise with captain Anand Amritraj calling it an "unfortunate" decision that has compromised the country's home advantage. The singles matches will begin at 5pm and the doubles at 7pm.
"I was not consulted about the timing of the matches and I am pretty sure the players were not either. Rohan did not know about it till I told him. We normally like hot conditions and playing in the evening certainly works better for the Spanish," Amritraj told from USA. "I found out the timings of the matches on the Davis Cup website. I think the general feeling is that the Spanish team are so better than us that it doesn't make much of a difference whether we play in the heat of the day or in the evening. That is unfortunate because we should try to give our team every advantage possible, whether it's the surface or time of day as we did against Korea. This is Davis Cup and strange things can happen," he said.